It was a great choice long before the 70's and 80's. Still I can't forgive them for buying and killing Goebel's, an even greater choice, and for firing Van Patrick.
Back in the 1970’s I was drinking an imported German beer called Lowenbrau. (Lion’s brew) An excellent lager! About 1975 Miller Breweries started a mass production of their version of Lowenbrau. It had nothing to do with the taste or quality of the German lager. As I recall it was just a light beer using a famous name. I do remember that I really disliked it and was very disappointed that I was unable to find a retailer that would carry the import. They all claimed ( rightfully so) that they could not sell enough of it because of the mass advertising that Miller was doing. You have to understand that this was ages before the internet, Amazon and Google. 12 years later Labatt Breweries of Canada produced a version of Lowenbrau, but on a limited scale and I had trouble locating it in on any consistency in my State. Lowenbrau is still produced in Germany and still to the strict standards they have. On occasion I will order some for a nostalgia occasion. It’s really ashamed that Miller could destroy even that small footprint with their truly awful beer. Yes I realize I’m being very impartial. Such is life.
I heard they were discontinued for violating German beer brewing laws , and to date nobody has tried it again. Don't understand why not, it was a good brew.👍
Lowenbrau in the bottle was very popular in the late 70's at the beach in Santa Monica. Michelob was also big. We looked for Swiss Lowenbrau in Florida in the 90's.
@@pmasters1951 Yep, apparently there have been lawsuits back and forth for decades between the Czech Budweiser (which is far superior) and the American Bud.
I remember drnking Rheingold Rolling Rock and Ballantines when I worked in Maine in the 70;s We also drank Canadian beers Moosehead and LaBatts. We also drank Naragansett from Boston. My college roommate was from Pittsburgh and brougt Iron City to the Midwest as well as the Christmas version- "Old Frothngschloss the Pale Stale Ale with the Foam on the Bottom." I lived near St. Louis so we had all the Anheuser-Busch products Michelob, Budweiser, Bud Light, and Busch But we also had Falstaff, Carling, Griesedieck Bros, 9-0-5, Schlitz, Red White and Blue, Pabst, Little Kings, and a few others.
That was fun! My dad would drink Schafer's (sp) beer when I was a kid. Mom had these tall crystal pilsner glasses. At eye level, i used to watch the bubbles rise...I was counter high. When mom wasn't in the room, he'd even let me have a sip lol! I have those glasses today.
I just watched a couple of old Schaefer ads a few days ago. Pretty funny in retrospect - they advertised it as the beer to get a buzz on. "Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one. Schaefer pleasure doesn't fade even when your thirst is done."
Being from the midwest Schiltz and Falstaff were pretty popular around here. Falstaff was the first beer I ever sipped back in 8th grade. 😁 A buddy of mine used to drink Bud Dry, and I bought a 6pk or two myself, but didn't that didn't last long. Never heard of Miller Clear, but I bought one, count it..., one 6pk of Zima, and didn't like it at all. I used to drink Bud for awhile, but a cousin turned me onto Heineken many years ago, and it's generally my go to. However I do buy other beers occasionally, I do like Guinness from time to time, Grolsch, and others.
During the seventies in the midwest we used to drink Cold Spring, Fox Deluxe, Buckhorn and Phifers as teenagers. One could buy a case of bottles for under $5.00 providing you returned a case of empties.
@@smith1958b I remember seeing Phifers, MAYBE Buckhorn, but I'm not familiar with the rest. Of course back then beer was fairly cheap especially these brands. Do you remember 905? I never had it, but it was real popular here too.
Never had a Falstaff. Dad was a huge Schlitz drinker until they changed the recipe and broke the company. He switched to Old Milwaukee which was huge in Iowa. Old Style (the REAL G. Heileman brew) was big too along with Hamm. PBR was usually a 3rd or fourth place behind Bud, Old Mill, Old Style. Did you ever try Dubuque Star? About 8 bucks for a case in the late 80's.
@@seththomas9105 I'm in Missouri, can't remember Dubuque Star. I can't say I've ever had Schlitz, and I've had Old Milwaukee, it was pretty good. One time I was given an Old Style, took a sip & poured the rest out, it was horrid.
The beers I remember growing up near Chicago: Blatz, Pabst, Schlitz, Hamm's, Leinenkugels, Meister Brau, Strohs, Kingsbury, Old Milwaukee, Straub, Steven's Point. Some of these are still around.
In my area, I miss JAX Beer. Falstaff, and Pearl Beers. Once very popular, they just disappeared. Jax and Falstaff were made in New Orleans, and Pearl was made in San Antonio.
Falstaff in New Orleans had a prominent high rise brewery with a rooftop "tasting" garden topped by a tall sign which forecast the weather. If it lit up from top to bottom, the temperature was falling -- from bottom to top, the temperature was rising. There was a ball at the top color-coded to predict fair weather or foul. The original Falstaff brewery, however, was in St. Louis as a branch of the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
@@itsjohndell Last I heard it still was but only in their local area of San Antonio. Its not distributed any further away than that. I wonder what happened? I am curious now. When I have time, I will check out their website if they have one and ask them what happened. I will let everyone know if I find out anything.
If you like IPAs Falls City makes a good one. I grew up in Kentucky and Falls City was what my dad always drank. To me it is not the best or worst beer out there.
My sis had a boyfriend when I was a kid who drove for a distributor and occasionally had 'extra' (haha) promotional beer signs, posters, etc., one of the coolest, the envy of my friends, was a Falls City relief sign (not flat) featuring an over and under rifle overlaid on an outdoor scene with a stream and mountains reminding us to "Aim for the Best!" Another favorite had a curvy chick in a bikini, shot from the knees to the chin, sporting a Stroh's bottle cap in her navel proclaiming "Great Beer Bellies are Made not Born"... waaaay before the piercing craze. 🍻
I remember Olympia Beer. Toured the brewery several times. Olympia was one of the 3 major beers selling in Washington State during the 60s and 70s. Rainier Beer, being the top seller, with Lucky Lager number 2, and Olympia number 3. Blitz and Heidelberg bringing up the rear along with the national brands.
The thing about the Olympia Brewery was how good the beer tasted coming out of the vats and the gift shop. Bought some Olympia Beer fabric and made curtains for 1/2 dozen vans in a car club early '70s.
OK OK OK, thank you for this video, Hop"n Gator beer!!! When I was a very young man in Myrtle Beach SC, I drank HG Beer!! When I tell people about it they look at me like I am nuts and tell me it must have been the other drugs I was on that led me to make up the name Hop'n Gator. (never took other drugs, but it was the early 70s.) So again thank you for the shout out to HG beer. I am posting this for all my friends who laugh at my memory of HG beer.
Schlitz was a decent beer and they also had a dark version that was great. Don’t know why it was discontinued. Heineken dark was also great. Can’t seem to find that anymore.
Schlitz was good back in the early Seventies, back then we would drink Schlitz and Molson Golden Ale and occasionally Rheingold on tap at the neighborhood bar.
I worked in a food store bagging groceries and I remember cans of beer and soft drinks exploding. I often had them explode on me! The manager blamed recycled aluminum that the cans were made of. 😢
Ohh the good old days of classic beer! I sure do remember some of those beers and I miss those great forgotten beers from the past. I'm not THAT old (61). I started drinking beer in 1979 at the age of 17. Cheers to those classic beers! 🍺
I was 9 in 1978. A Billy Beer can was the first can in my beer can collection. The collecting didn't last more than a couple years. I have no idea what happened to that can.
As a child I lived 6 blocks from the Drewrys beer factory in South Bend Indiana. If the wind blew the right way you could smell the beer for quite a distance. I can remember my dad listening to WGN radio in Chicago back when Franklyn MacCormick had a show called "The Meisterbrau Showcase" There were many different beers available in the midwest during the '50s and '60s.
Although they were probably better known for their ale, Ballentine made beer that was especially good with food. I drank quite a bit of it back in the early 60s.
🎼🎵"Heeey, get your cold beer! Heeey, get your Ballantine! Heeey, get your ice cold beer; get your ice cold Ballantine beer!" 🎶 I remember that jingle from every Orioles home game.
My favorite, that is no longer available, is Lucky Beer. There were rebus puzzles underneath the bottle cap. It came in 12-pack cases small bottles, 12oz cans and 20oz and 40oz bottles.
When I was growing up in Oklahoma, all of the beer sold was 3.2%. I remember my grandad drinking Falstaff, Lone Star, Coors and Ajax beer. I’ve been trying to find one of the animated Jax commercials for years.
When I was 14, we moved to a small town where all the beer was 3.2. It was the only place in Virginia ( other than military installations) where you could not get 6.4 beer. Coors produced a 3.2 beer and still had the push button tops. The law changed in ‘76 and we got 6.4
I drank the shit out of Red,White,& Blue beer back in 1980, it was the poor man’s Pabst Blue Ribbon. You could buy a case(24cans) for $1.95. Then I found out later the reason I could drink so much Red, White & Blue was because it was only 3.2% beer, not 6% like regular beer.
Damn, they showed an ad for a case (24 bottles) of Meisner Brau beer for $1.50, how long ago was that?! Last time I was in a bar, I paid six dollars for one bottle of beer.
Augsburger beer by the Monroe Brewing Company, Monroe, WI. Discontinued in 1985. I still have a five gold rimmed drinking glass set in the original packaging. It was six glasses, but some drunk person back in the day broke it. They also made Huber, my beer of choice in College.
My wife is from Monroe and we drank Augsburger along with Rhinelander Bock and Huber Bock. Huber Bock is still made but I don’t know if it is the same recipe as back in the ‘70s.
Back in the 80's, Coors used to do a special run around the holidays called Winterfest. For something brewed by Coors it was pretty good. By the way, anyone remember the button top cans that Coors had during the mid seventies?
Meister Brau , the image of the first can shown, was my go to beer when I was 16 in 1988. It was super cheap and had a decent taste I thought. I had it one again in 1996 , reminiscing about my high school days.
Dad use to drink 7oz Rolling Rock ( pony bottles) It was light and crisp -plus never had the chance to get warm. It was my first beer @11 years old in ‘72
I'd forgotten all about that "clear beer" thing. Never could understand it, looked pretty unappetizing. My friends and I were big on Weinhard's, it was better than the average domestic beer and it didn't cost as much as imported. We thought Olympia was weak and watery, so our version of their slogan, instead of "It's the water and a lot more", was "It's just water, and nothing more."
Spent a number of summers in my youth in New York State drinking Utica Club and Rheingold. I'd like to see those again for old times sake. I'd also like to see Olympia being made again.
Im an avid beer can collector with thousands of cans from the 70's ! I pretty much have all the brands ! That was a good decade for collectors ! I like the cream ales the most !
@scottymoondogjakubin4766 I'd have to look through it, I've got pulltabs flat tops cone tops, trays ect. You don't happen to be in upstate NY by any chance ?
@@scottymoondogjakubin4766 are you looking for tab top & pop top ,or all types of cans , so I know what to look through, I've also got coasters, & openers
1:29 The original recipe for Olympia Beer was recreated and is being served again in downtown Olympia as a Brewhouse. It's called Well 80 on 4th Ave and they serve the original formula.
In Manitoba in the 80's, government liquor stores carried Blatz as the absolute cheapest beer available (cheaper than domestic brands even). Later that decade, they dropped Blatz and adopted Meister-Brau to fill that market segment. My friends and I called it "Monster-Brau". We probably were not the only ones to call it that.
The price & squat bottle of Pabst red white & blue bottle reminded me of Lucky Lager. It was around a long time but disappeared. My dad use to drink Busch. It had a mountain side full of trees on the can
I remember Doc Otis Hard Lemon back in the early 2000s. It was a hard lemonade that tasted like actual lemonade instead of candy like Mike's. I wish that was still around.
Schlitz brewed fine beer for many years. It rivaled Budweiser in sales. Anheuser Busch purchased the brand and shut it down, removing a wonderful competitor
Wrong. What really happened is the son of Joseph shlitz. Thought it took to long to brew He sped up the process. It tasted the same but. Shelf life was bad. They came back with old Milwaukee. The kid messed up
I loved Bud Dry & Stroh's Bock! Dad, my older brother and a couple of my buddies used to go to Pizza Hut for a pizza and a couple pitchers of good bock. Bud Dry in my 12-pack cooler after work at night in the hot summers in the plants.
How do we know they stopped making Miller Clear? Maybe they didn't. I could be in the cooler at your regular retailer. We just don't see it because it's clear. Ever think of that?
I grew up in Peoria, the home of Gipps Beer with the slogan "Gimme Gipps". For really cheap beer there was a road house down on Galena Road that sold Bullfrog Beer.
I miss the Schiltz draft dark beer from the 80's. We with friends would go to St. Aug., Fl on weekends and end up at the Milltop Tavern. It was the best beer that I have ever tasted. Shalom
It’s a crying shame about Pete’s Wicked Ale. Pete Slosberg was from my hometown. I really loved his Wicked Winter Ale. On a side note, I was just out in Washington state for work. I tried to find Olympia beer while I was out there, only to find out it was discontinued a couple years ago
Dad used to drink Oly beer in small cans. He liked the taste and the small cans allowed him to finish a beer before it got warm. Dad with his Oly and Mom with an Oly and a small glass of Southern Comfort. I was used as the TV remote control.
Meister Braun...at a $ 1.80 a twelve pack....1961-2. " green beer " ! , Blatz, _- 50's , Hamm's s beer,quart bottles. ,good taste. Billy Beer....green beer .. was collectible , Henry Weinhard beer... Great . ! 70's .... Miller..." Draft" ..great! Up to 90''s. Brew 102...cheap green beer...at a $ 1 per 6 pack 12 oz...had 16 oz cans too. Olympia..great ..had a nice barley dry taste. Olympia really caused major sorrow when they stopped brewing. A treible hunt for the last cans !
I live in LA and up until the ‘70s, maybe early ‘80s, right off the 101 freeway heading North, entering downtown LA, off to the left, was the home of Brew 102. I was never old enough to drink it when it was around but for some reason remember that one. Also, do they still make Lucky Lager? With the cryptonym on the inside of the bottle cap. Dirt cheap in stubby bottles. I loved that stuff.
Used to deliver heavy printed sheets of p printed material to the die- cutters on Central in Los Angeles....on the way back on the 5 freeway at 95 degrees, the air a nice shade of purple ( real lung burning , eye watering smog, not the snowflake stuff today)The 102 Brewery was next to the 5 freeway southbound ...you know what you wanted !
Did they mention Hamm's beer? I haven't seen it in years. "From the land of sky blue waters... Comes the beer refreshing....Hamm's..." Also I remember a late night radio program called "The all-night Meister-Brau showcase" hosted by Franklin McCormick. My Dad would put it on in the car after a long weekend day at Grandma & Grandpa's house.
One of the older ales I used to like some years ago was Bass, imported from England. It disappeared from the shelves for a while, then reappeared again, this time brewed here in America. But the flavor just wasn't the same. I haven't had any for quite a long time, nor have I seen it sold anywhere recently.
Miss the gold foil Michelobe, and Lowenbraue also.
Strohs Fire brewed beer was a great choice in the 70’s and 80’s
Still drinking it
I had to be really drunk to drink that High School memories
It was a great choice long before the 70's and 80's. Still I can't forgive them for buying and killing Goebel's, an even greater choice, and for firing Van Patrick.
I remember the song for the Stroh's beer commercials. Nancy Wilson sang. I can only remember part of the lyrics, but can hum the entire tune.
Strohs , old Milwaukee and meister brau are the 3 I remember ( genny cream ale, "creamer screamers") at family events
I still have my beer can collection.i’m 59 lol beers from the 60’s & 70s The olde Frothingsloth cans
Remember Anchor Steam beer! Never forget Anchor Steam!
Back in the 1970’s I was drinking an imported German beer called Lowenbrau. (Lion’s brew) An excellent lager!
About 1975 Miller Breweries started a mass production of their version of Lowenbrau.
It had nothing to do with the taste or quality of the German lager. As I recall it was just a light beer using a famous name. I do remember that I really disliked it and was very disappointed that I was unable to find a retailer that would carry the import. They all claimed ( rightfully so) that they could not sell enough of it because of the mass advertising that Miller was doing. You have to understand that this was ages before the internet, Amazon and Google.
12 years later Labatt Breweries of Canada produced a version of Lowenbrau, but on a limited scale and I had trouble locating it in on any consistency in my State.
Lowenbrau is still produced in Germany and still to the strict standards they have.
On occasion I will order some for a nostalgia occasion.
It’s really ashamed that Miller could destroy even that small footprint with their truly awful beer.
Yes I realize I’m being very impartial. Such is life.
I used to drink imported Lowenbrau draught (light & dark) in the 70’s-great stuff!
There's a Czech lager called Budweiser, too. The American version is not quite the same.
I heard they were discontinued for violating German beer brewing laws , and to date nobody has tried it again. Don't understand why not, it was a good brew.👍
Lowenbrau in the bottle was very popular in the late 70's at the beach in Santa Monica. Michelob was also big. We looked for Swiss Lowenbrau in Florida in the 90's.
@@pmasters1951 Yep, apparently there have been lawsuits back and forth for decades between the Czech Budweiser (which is far superior) and the American Bud.
In the 60's in New Jersey Schaefer was probably the #1. Rheingold, Rolling Rock, Ballantines, Bud and Schlitz were also popular.
I remember drnking Rheingold Rolling Rock and Ballantines when I worked in Maine in the 70;s We also drank Canadian beers Moosehead and LaBatts. We also drank Naragansett from Boston. My college roommate was from Pittsburgh and brougt Iron City to the Midwest as well as the Christmas version- "Old Frothngschloss the Pale Stale Ale with the Foam on the Bottom." I lived near St. Louis so we had all the Anheuser-Busch products Michelob, Budweiser, Bud Light, and Busch But we also had Falstaff, Carling, Griesedieck Bros, 9-0-5, Schlitz, Red White and Blue, Pabst, Little Kings, and a few others.
Being in my early 20's in the 70's we drank what was ever was available and cheap lol@@billgrandone3552
That was fun!
My dad would drink Schafer's (sp) beer when I was a kid. Mom had these tall crystal pilsner glasses. At eye level, i used to watch the bubbles rise...I was counter high. When mom wasn't in the room, he'd even let me have a sip lol!
I have those glasses today.
I just watched a couple of old Schaefer ads a few days ago. Pretty funny in retrospect - they advertised it as the beer to get a buzz on. "Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one. Schaefer pleasure doesn't fade even when your thirst is done."
@@61hink That's wild, thanks!
My pop would drink Olympia beer when he would BBQ. Before that he would drink Blatz. Anyone remember Blatz beer?
My comment to Blatz Beer was, Blatz gives you the Splatz. I drank it, sometimes it was a true statement!!
Lol. I do
That and Oly is what we drank when I was in the Army
Wisconsin guy enters the chat: goddamn right, I remember blatz! Do you remember blatz cream ale?
of course.... !
Being from the midwest Schiltz and Falstaff were pretty popular around here. Falstaff was the first beer I ever sipped back in 8th grade. 😁 A buddy of mine used to drink Bud Dry, and I bought a 6pk or two myself, but didn't that didn't last long. Never heard of Miller Clear, but I bought one, count it..., one 6pk of Zima, and didn't like it at all. I used to drink Bud for awhile, but a cousin turned me onto Heineken many years ago, and it's generally my go to. However I do buy other beers occasionally, I do like Guinness from time to time, Grolsch, and others.
During the seventies in the midwest we used to drink Cold Spring, Fox Deluxe, Buckhorn and Phifers as teenagers. One could buy a case of bottles for under $5.00 providing you returned a case of empties.
@@smith1958b I remember seeing Phifers, MAYBE Buckhorn, but I'm not familiar with the rest. Of course back then beer was fairly cheap especially these brands. Do you remember 905? I never had it, but it was real popular here too.
Never had a Falstaff. Dad was a huge Schlitz drinker until they changed the recipe and broke the company. He switched to Old Milwaukee which was huge in Iowa. Old Style (the REAL G. Heileman brew) was big too along with Hamm. PBR was usually a 3rd or fourth place behind Bud, Old Mill, Old Style.
Did you ever try Dubuque Star? About 8 bucks for a case in the late 80's.
I'm from Cleveland and remember my parents having Carling Black Label in the house. P.O.C (Pride of Cleveland) was also popular.
@@seththomas9105 I'm in Missouri, can't remember Dubuque Star. I can't say I've ever had Schlitz, and I've had Old Milwaukee, it was pretty good. One time I was given an Old Style, took a sip & poured the rest out, it was horrid.
The beers I remember growing up near Chicago: Blatz, Pabst, Schlitz, Hamm's, Leinenkugels, Meister Brau, Strohs, Kingsbury, Old Milwaukee, Straub, Steven's Point. Some of these are still around.
In my area, I miss JAX Beer. Falstaff, and Pearl Beers. Once very popular, they just disappeared.
Jax and Falstaff were made in New Orleans, and Pearl was made in San Antonio.
I remember way back when the Jax brewery in the Quarter actually brewed beer.
Falstaff in New Orleans had a prominent high rise brewery with a rooftop "tasting" garden topped by a tall sign which forecast the weather. If it lit up from top to bottom, the temperature was falling -- from bottom to top, the temperature was rising. There was a ball at the top color-coded to predict fair weather or foul. The original Falstaff brewery, however, was in St. Louis as a branch of the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
I drank a lot of Pearl And black label, both were cheep at the base exchange
Don't quote me but I think Pearl is still made. Pop me a Pearl, boy!
@@itsjohndell Last I heard it still was but only in their local area of San Antonio. Its not distributed any further away than that. I wonder what happened? I am curious now. When I have time, I will check out their website if they have one and ask them what happened. I will let everyone know if I find out anything.
I've lived in Kentucky for 42 years and Falls City beer is still in beer stores here, although it's sold now as a craft beer.
If you like IPAs Falls City makes a good one. I grew up in Kentucky and Falls City was what my dad always drank. To me it is not the best or worst beer out there.
My sis had a boyfriend when I was a kid who drove for a distributor and occasionally had 'extra' (haha) promotional beer signs, posters, etc., one of the coolest, the envy of my friends, was a Falls City relief sign (not flat) featuring an over and under rifle overlaid on an outdoor scene with a stream and mountains reminding us to "Aim for the Best!" Another favorite had a curvy chick in a bikini, shot from the knees to the chin, sporting a Stroh's bottle cap in her navel proclaiming "Great Beer Bellies are Made not Born"... waaaay before the piercing craze. 🍻
Fun to see all the old beer cans that I enjoyed collecting as a kid.
Or new beer cans that you find littering the streets?
I still have my collection.we would forage for hours in the woods in the 70’s .we would go where the teenagers drank .lol
I miss strohs .
I still have one when I visit Ohio
16 oz strohs ❤
So much has changed. I wish some things were still the same.
I remember Olympia Beer. Toured the brewery several times. Olympia was one of the 3 major beers selling in Washington State during the 60s and 70s. Rainier Beer, being the top seller, with Lucky Lager number 2, and Olympia number 3. Blitz and Heidelberg bringing up the rear along with the national brands.
We liked Blitz Bavarian a lot in LA in the late 70's. Can't find it anymore..
The thing about the Olympia Brewery was how good the beer tasted coming out of the vats and the gift shop. Bought some Olympia Beer fabric and made curtains for 1/2 dozen vans in a car club early '70s.
Well done
OK OK OK, thank you for this video, Hop"n Gator beer!!! When I was a very young man in Myrtle Beach SC, I drank HG Beer!! When I tell people about it they look at me like I am nuts and tell me it must have been the other drugs I was on that led me to make up the name Hop'n Gator. (never took other drugs, but it was the early 70s.) So again thank you for the shout out to HG beer. I am posting this for all my friends who laugh at my memory of HG beer.
Schlitz was a decent beer and they also had a dark version that was great. Don’t know why it was discontinued. Heineken dark was also great. Can’t seem to find that anymore.
I liked it also but they messed with the formula and that was that.
Schlitz was good back in the early Seventies, back then we would drink Schlitz and Molson Golden Ale and occasionally Rheingold on tap at the neighborhood bar.
Schlitz is still really easy to find it just tastes horrible way too heavy and not enough whacky flavors of marketing to sell to the microbrew crous
Schlitz had some commercials featuring a woman who was from either China or Japan and she would pronounce it “Schits” !😁
I worked in a food store bagging groceries and I remember cans of beer and soft drinks exploding. I often had them explode on me! The manager blamed recycled aluminum that the cans were made of. 😢
Ohh the good old days of classic beer! I sure do remember some of those beers and I miss those great forgotten beers from the past. I'm not THAT old (61). I started drinking beer in 1979 at the age of 17. Cheers to those classic beers! 🍺
This video made me feel old remembering drinking some of these old beers 😂😂😂
I’m with you
I was 9 in 1978. A Billy Beer can was the first can in my beer can collection. The collecting didn't last more than a couple years. I have no idea what happened to that can.
Anchor Steam (moment of silence) went out of business last year. It made my heart sad. How sad? 😭 There. I've never used an emogee before.
I’m so happy that you put Corrine Alphen in the introduction. Lovely woman.
I drank (Coors) Extra Gold for 10-15 years. It came in a 30 pack and was excellent. I wish it was still around.
As a child I lived 6 blocks from the Drewrys beer factory in South Bend Indiana. If the wind blew the right way you could smell the beer for quite a distance. I can remember my dad listening to WGN radio in Chicago back when Franklyn MacCormick had a show called "The Meisterbrau Showcase" There were many different beers available in the midwest during the '50s and '60s.
about 3 years ago, I found a 12 pack of Oly in my home town grocery store. Bought it immediately. It was my uncle's favorite.
Schlitz, Billy, Falstaff, I remember all these beers!
Of all these the one I would buy today would be Olympia.
Anybody remember Buckhorn? It was about four dollars a case or maybe less lol.
Oh yeah! The "cheap" version of Lonestar!
@@mmtx73 😂Doesn’t seem possible….🤔
Pittsburgh Brewing is currently doing the mixing again....this time with Turner;s Iced Teas....another Pgh icon.......
Although they were probably better known for their ale, Ballentine made beer that was especially good with food. I drank quite a bit of it back in the early 60s.
🎼🎵"Heeey, get your cold beer! Heeey, get your Ballantine! Heeey, get your ice cold beer; get your ice cold Ballantine beer!" 🎶 I remember that jingle from every Orioles home game.
I was neighbors with a descendant of the Ballentine company.
Nice girl named Bess.
First time I ever got drunk was on Ballantine Ale. I wish they still made it, a decent and cheap light Ale.
Ballantine@@itsjohndell ale is still made here in jersey my local liquor store carries it next to Genesee cream ale
In Nam the government bought beer from every brewery I think. I had damn near every one of these. Mostly once then never again.
My favorite, that is no longer available, is Lucky Beer.
There were rebus puzzles underneath the bottle cap.
It came in 12-pack cases small bottles, 12oz cans and 20oz and 40oz bottles.
When I was growing up in Oklahoma, all of the beer sold was 3.2%. I remember my grandad drinking Falstaff, Lone Star, Coors and Ajax beer. I’ve been trying to find one of the animated Jax commercials for years.
When I was 14, we moved to a small town where all the beer was 3.2. It was the only place in Virginia ( other than military installations) where you could not get 6.4 beer. Coors produced a 3.2 beer and still had the push button tops. The law changed in ‘76 and we got 6.4
Bud Light is on the endangered list.
There was a big backlash here in the Northwest when Henry's was discontinued. It was brought back and is still avaliable.
What ever happened to Coors extra gold that was a good beer.
Shlitz Dark: sadly long gone, best effing beer I ever had.
Tum-water... not toom-water.
But RWB often would be cans of regular PBR, at RWB prices.
Falls City Brewing did make a lasting contribution to the beverage industry: the Sta-Tab that is now standard on every beverage can.
Id like to see all of Inbev on this list!!
Start with Budlight.
One of my first beers was Schlitz. Used to drink pitchers of it at a cajun restaurant.
I can't find regular Michelob anymore.
I drank the shit out of Red,White,& Blue beer back in 1980, it was the poor man’s Pabst Blue Ribbon. You could buy a case(24cans) for $1.95.
Then I found out later the reason I could drink so much Red, White & Blue was because it was only 3.2% beer, not 6% like regular beer.
Damn, they showed an ad for a case (24 bottles) of Meisner Brau beer for $1.50, how long ago was that?! Last time I was in a bar, I paid six dollars for one bottle of beer.
I used to buy a case of Meisterbrau for $9.99 back in the late nineties
Back in the late 1950s in the Cleveland area we had Leisy ,Strohs, POC, Schlitz, Standard .
Strohs. Hellyeah. I was trying to think of that. I drank it in the early 90s in Tennessee. It came in a 15 pack as I recall.
Augsburger beer by the Monroe Brewing Company, Monroe, WI. Discontinued in 1985. I still have a five gold rimmed drinking glass set in the original packaging. It was six glasses, but some drunk person back in the day broke it. They also made Huber, my beer of choice in College.
I’m from Monroe . Used to love the headaches Huber gave me 😂. The brewery is owned by an Indian family now and Huber isn’t their brew of choice.
My wife is from Monroe and we drank Augsburger along with Rhinelander Bock and Huber Bock. Huber Bock is still made but I don’t know if it is the same recipe as back in the ‘70s.
@@IowaGrandpaTrain I don’t think it is the same but I don’t drink enough to be an expert in the issue.
Back in the 80's, Coors used to do a special run around the holidays called Winterfest. For something brewed by Coors it was pretty good. By the way, anyone remember the button top cans that Coors had during the mid seventies?
I h8ed those button top cans.
Yes- as I commented above, my town had only 3.2 beer, one of which was Coors, complete with push button tops (‘76)
Meister Brau , the image of the first can shown, was my go to beer when I was 16 in 1988. It was super cheap and had a decent taste I thought. I had it one again in 1996 , reminiscing about my high school days.
Dad use to drink 7oz Rolling Rock ( pony bottles) It was light and crisp -plus never had the chance to get warm. It was my first beer @11 years old in ‘72
I'd forgotten all about that "clear beer" thing. Never could understand it, looked pretty unappetizing. My friends and I were big on Weinhard's, it was better than the average domestic beer and it didn't cost as much as imported. We thought Olympia was weak and watery, so our version of their slogan, instead of "It's the water and a lot more", was "It's just water, and nothing more."
Spent a number of summers in my youth in New York State drinking Utica Club and Rheingold. I'd like to see those again for old times sake. I'd also like to see Olympia being made again.
Where is upstate NY ?
I was in a thrift store in Phoenix and found a Schultz and Dooley snow globe .
@@ericschulze5641north of Utica are the Adirondack mtns ,biggest chunk of wilderness east of the Mississippi.
@@drhotchkissknow it well I spend my summer weekends in the 1000 isles, & I live not far from Utica
As a kid in Camden N.J. my Mothers Father drank Canden Beer,1957 they went out of business in 1963!
I’ve learned so much about old beers and new ones from the people responding.
In Japan there was a beer called Kirin. I don’t know if it’s still around.
It is indeed.
Still available- especially at better Japanese eateries
Hey Henry’s is still around see it at my local store all the time .
I totally miss the dry beer era. MICHELOB Dry was my absolute favorite and Bud Dry was a good cheaper alternative until it got phased out
I was a fan of the Ice Beers, like Bud Ice, Icehouse was better back then, they are still sold here but hanging by a thread.
My beeer is Rheingold , the dry beer,
Think of Rheigold, whenever you buy beer
Pete's Wicked Ales were a treasure. Sad that those went away. Henry Weinhards also made amazing beers.
Henry looked like it would have been a good beer
Strawberry Blond. Outstanding beer
Im an avid beer can collector with thousands of cans from the 70's ! I pretty much have all the brands ! That was a good decade for collectors ! I like the cream ales the most !
Turning 60 this year are you interested in my collection ?
@@ericschulze5641 How much $ ?
@scottymoondogjakubin4766 I'd have to look through it, I've got pulltabs flat tops cone tops, trays ect. You don't happen to be in upstate NY by any chance ?
@@ericschulze5641 No ! I Live In Laporte Indiana ! But i'll keep you in mind ! I may be interested still ! Thanks !
@@scottymoondogjakubin4766 are you looking for tab top & pop top ,or all types of cans , so I know what to look through, I've also got coasters, & openers
I remember drinking Busch beer brewed in Upper Michigan. It was my dad's favorite myself I had preferred Pabst Blue Ribbon
Here in Tulsa we had Ranger Beer Brewing Company, I have a church key with the logo on it.
I hope Bud Light is on the next list.
Remember when Old Milwaukee came in milk cartons? My pop used to drink that and Shlitz beer
1:29 The original recipe for Olympia Beer was recreated and is being served again in downtown Olympia as a Brewhouse. It's called Well 80 on 4th Ave and they serve the original formula.
Eastside Old Tap Lager Beer!! An oldie from LA.
In Manitoba in the 80's, government liquor stores carried Blatz as the absolute cheapest beer available (cheaper than domestic brands even). Later that decade, they dropped Blatz and adopted Meister-Brau to fill that market segment. My friends and I called it "Monster-Brau". We probably were not the only ones to call it that.
In college, we called it Meister Chow. A local bar would sell seven draft 7oz glasses for $2. I miss the 80's.
The price & squat bottle of Pabst red white & blue bottle reminded me of Lucky Lager. It was around a long time but disappeared. My dad use to drink Busch. It had a mountain side full of trees on the can
I remember Doc Otis Hard Lemon back in the early 2000s. It was a hard lemonade that tasted like actual lemonade instead of candy like Mike's. I wish that was still around.
Summer Shandy by Lienenkugal is decent but only available in Summer
I liked Oly beer , when I was stationed in Korea we drank a lot of Oly .
I remember Gennesse cream ale.
I miss Henry Weinhard's. It was a good beer until Coors turned it into piss water and let it fade away.
Here in New England we used to have Carling Black Label, Pickwick Ale (with puzzles inside the bottle caps), and Knickerbocker. All cheap.
Schlitz brewed fine beer for many years. It rivaled Budweiser in sales. Anheuser Busch purchased the brand and shut it down, removing a wonderful competitor
Didn’t know AB bought out Schlitz. Glad AB is in trouble now.
Wrong. What really happened is the son of Joseph shlitz. Thought it took to long to brew
He sped up the process. It tasted the same but. Shelf life was bad. They came back with old Milwaukee. The kid messed up
Anhauser Busch never bought or owned Schlitz..it is owned now by Pabst ,and it tastes pretty bad, surprised anyone wants it.
Pete was my entry into craft beer, especially being from Connecticut(may or may have been underage lol).......wish he would bring it back.
I was all about Hop'n'Gator back in the 70s. Thought it was apple. Quite a kick. Drank about a thousand of em.
I loved Bud Dry & Stroh's Bock! Dad, my older brother and a couple of my buddies used to go to Pizza Hut for a pizza and a couple pitchers of good bock. Bud Dry in my 12-pack cooler after work at night in the hot summers in the plants.
You forgot Stag beer from Carling.
How do we know they stopped making Miller Clear? Maybe they didn't. I could be in the cooler at your regular retailer. We just don't see it because it's clear. Ever think of that?
I grew up in Peoria, the home of Gipps Beer with the slogan "Gimme Gipps". For really cheap beer there was
a road house down on Galena Road that sold Bullfrog Beer.
bullfrog: 4 quarts for a buck in chicago!
Bud light will soon be on this list.
I miss the Schiltz draft dark beer from the 80's. We with friends would go to St. Aug., Fl on weekends and end up at the Milltop Tavern. It was the best beer that I have ever tasted. Shalom
It’s a crying shame about Pete’s Wicked Ale. Pete Slosberg was from my hometown. I really loved his Wicked Winter Ale. On a side note, I was just out in Washington state for work. I tried to find Olympia beer while I was out there, only to find out it was discontinued a couple years ago
Pfeiffer (3 cases for $9.99, plus tax) and Blatz. Got us through college.
Dad used to drink Oly beer in small cans. He liked the taste and the small cans allowed him to finish a beer before it got warm. Dad with his Oly and Mom with an Oly and a small glass of Southern Comfort. I was used as the TV remote control.
My dad had a remote like that!
Labatts Old Vienna and Molsons. Great Canadian beers we enjoyed in Western New York. Still do.
Don't forget the old Western NY mainstay...Iroquois.
Meister Braun...at a $ 1.80 a twelve pack....1961-2. " green beer " ! , Blatz, _- 50's , Hamm's s beer,quart bottles. ,good taste. Billy Beer....green beer .. was collectible , Henry Weinhard beer... Great . ! 70's .... Miller..." Draft" ..great! Up to 90''s. Brew 102...cheap green beer...at a $ 1 per 6 pack 12 oz...had 16 oz cans too. Olympia..great ..had a nice barley dry taste. Olympia really caused major sorrow when they stopped brewing. A treible hunt for the last cans !
I live in LA and up until the ‘70s, maybe early ‘80s, right off the 101 freeway heading North, entering downtown LA, off to the left, was the home of Brew 102. I was never old enough to drink it when it was around but for some reason remember that one.
Also, do they still make Lucky Lager? With the cryptonym on the inside of the bottle cap. Dirt cheap in stubby bottles. I loved that stuff.
Used to deliver heavy printed sheets of p printed material to the die- cutters on Central in Los Angeles....on the way back on the 5 freeway at 95 degrees, the air a nice shade of purple ( real lung burning , eye watering smog, not the snowflake stuff today)The 102 Brewery was next to the 5 freeway southbound ...you know what you wanted !
Did they mention Hamm's beer? I haven't seen it in years.
"From the land of sky blue waters...
Comes the beer refreshing....Hamm's..."
Also I remember a late night radio program called "The all-night Meister-Brau showcase" hosted by Franklin McCormick. My Dad would put it on in the car after a long weekend day at Grandma & Grandpa's house.
Dad drank Brew 102. Sometimes he would let me taste the foam😂
Pete's Wicked Winter Brew was one of the crowning achievements of mankind.
Not exactly what I was hoping for, but the Hop'nGator was a memory jogger.
I've been to the Olympia brewery several times in the past, was a really nice place then
Olympia beer was great had family in Washington we we to the brewery a few times when I was a kid. It was on of my favorite beers
La Crosse Wisconsin
Drinking age was 18 college Army base 30 miles away Fort McCoy❤
Hop’n Gator was the best. They was nothing better in 1970 than a cold Hop’n Gator and a joint.
Another good beer i found in upstate New York in the mid seventies was Gennessee beer or Jenny, the locals called it. It was a very sweet beer.
Oh yeah, Genessee Cream Ale was my moms favourite.someone told me tho that you can still get it.😊
I really think that Meister Bräu would be a success if it was produced for Christmas.
One of the older ales I used to like some years ago was Bass, imported from England. It disappeared from the shelves for a while, then reappeared again, this time brewed here in America. But the flavor just wasn't the same. I haven't had any for quite a long time, nor have I seen it sold anywhere recently.
Always loved Bass Ale, haven't seen it on the shelf in a few years, always wondered why. Can't remember the last time I had a proper Black n' Tan.
Remember it well early 80’s late 70’s
That was a good one